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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ms Young"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ms Young")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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6040 results for: Keyword - Ms Young
We found 3463 matches on Performance Comments, 1904 matches on Event Comments, 750 matches on Author, 698 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5426
19 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Dorilas-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Narbas-Packer; Euricles-Aickin; Erox-Hurst; High Priest-Chambers; Poliphontes-Palmer; Ismene-Mrs Sharp; Merope-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Merope Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: AEsop

5427
20 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

5428
20 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Cast
Role: Princess Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

5429
04 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: As17790222

5430
08 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

5431
27 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Double Deception, announced on playbill of 26 Apr.] MS annotation on Kemble playbill: I believe this was the last time Miss Younge acted at Drury Lane. See C. G. T. November 10th, 1779. Receipts: #107 10s. 6d. (66.17.0; 32.16.0; 7.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Mrs Beverley Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Cast
Role: Principal Vocal Parts Actor: Webster, Gaudry, A Young Lady

Dance: As17790417

5432
28 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

5433
13 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: In: Aldridge, Miss Valois

5434
01 June 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

5435
01 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: Mainpiece: With Two New Dances-(see17790705

5436
24 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

5437
27 September 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Device; or, The Deaf Doctor

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17790924

Song: II: The Cottage on the lawn (set by Michael Arne)-Mrs Kennedy

5438
18 October 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Touchstone Of Invention; Or, The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Henry And Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: 2nd piece: With a Hornpipe-Lonsdale

Song: End I: two part song, Damon and Clora-Leach, Miss Mitchell (1st appearance); End III: My sweet pretty Mogg-Wright

5439
10 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland]: taken from [the same, by] Massinger and [Mariamne, by] Fenton. [not in Larpent MS; not published.] With new Dresses. Henderson "might surely break himself of the aukward custom of clapping his hands together almost perpetually, and running on and off the stage with so ungraceful a levity" (Morning Chronicle, 11 Nov.). [Miss Younge was from dl.] Receipts: #127 10s. 6d. (124.14.0; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Milan

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Henderson, Hull, Whitfield, Peile, L'Estrange, Fearon, Robson, Booth, Thompson, Aickin, Miss Platt, Miss Younge (1st appearance at this theatre). Cast from Morning Chronicle, 11 Nov.: Sforza-Henderson; Cardinal-Hull; Alphonso-Whitfield; Emperor-Peile; Pescara-L'Estrange; Spanish Captains-Fearon, Robson, Booth; Lodovico-Thompson; Francisco-Aickin; Attendant-Miss Platt; Marcelia-Miss Younge; New Prologue-Lee Lewes, Hull (Public Advertiser, 11 Nov.); New Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley (ibid.).
Cast
Role: Marcelia Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

5440
20 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

5441
01 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi; Or, The Descent Of The Dieties

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

5442
17 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17791231

5443
21 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Comus

5444
18 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady Cured

Performance Comment: Atall-Lewis; Careless-Wroughton; Clerimont-Whitfield; Finder-Wewitzer; Captain Strutt-Brunsdon; Sir Harry Atall-Thompson; Mr Wilful-Fearon; Bolus-Booth; Rhubarb-Jones; Supple-W. Bates; Sir Solomon Sadlife-Quick; Lady Dainty-Mrs Mattocks; Clarinda-Miss Ambrose; Sylvia-Mrs Lewis; Wishwell-Mrs Wilson; Situp-Mrs Poussin; Lady Sadlife-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The School For Scandal Scandaliz'd

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

5445
12 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Orators; Or, Ladies' Debating Society

Afterpiece Title: The Merchant of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Young Wrongward Actor: Robson

Song: End III 2nd piece: a Scotch ballad (the music by Dr Arne)-Mrs Kennedy

Ballet: End IV 2nd piece: The Humours of New-Market. As17800508

5446
02 September 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: In afterpiece: Master and Miss Byrne.[This dance was included in all subsequent performances.

5447
30 October 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cabinet Of Fancy; Or, Evening Exhibition

5448
31 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17801027

5449
04 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Henderson; Moneses-Wroughton; Axalla-Whitfield; Omar-Fearon; Dervise-L'Estrange; Prince of Tanais-Booth; Hali-Robson; Stratocles-Thompson; Zama-J. Wilson; Mirvan-Stevens; Bajazet-Aickin; Selima-Mrs Inchbald; Arpasia-Miss Younge; The usual Prologue-Wroughton.
Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Excise-Man

Dance: As17801027

Song: IV: To thee O gentle sleep!-Mrs Morton

5450
06 November 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Critic